The Last Emperor Who Was Expelled from Li Guoxiong's Mouth (IV)

Seven Before and after Puyi left the palace

In late October 1924, General Feng Yuxiang staged a coup d'état in Beijing and placed Cao Kun, the president of the Republic of China government, under house arrest. At the end of the month, the people in the palace panicked, only to see some eunuchs biting their ears as soon as they saw each other: "I heard that some of the eunuchs who were thrown out of the palace have already gone to Feng Yuxiang's headquarters to complain!"

"What's the accusation?"

"Tell Grandpa Long Live to steal and sell antiquities in the palace!"

Some people shouted that "Feng Yuxiang has withdrawn the guards of the Forbidden City" and said that "cannons have been hung in the Jingshan Chong Palace"... I don't think a thirteen- or fourteen-year-old child knows how to be afraid!

In the first half of November 5th, Puyi was staying in the Yangxin Hall, and I was standing on the long street between the north and the south, when I suddenly saw two old men holding up an old man, coming from the direction of the Xihua Gate in the south and turning towards the Yangxin Hall. When he approached me, I could see that it was Shao Ying, the minister of internal affairs. I saw an anxious look on his face, and as he walked, he asked, "Where is the emperor?" Where is the Emperor?" Just like that, I was put into the Yangxin Temple, stayed for a short period of time, and let people stand up again.

After a while, the words came out. It is said that Feng Yuxiang "forced the palace", and the Forbidden City has been surrounded by heavy troops. It is also said that standing on the show pile in the imperial garden can see the movement outside the city. I was curious, about to be on duty with the attendant Wang Sanyuan to see, we really climbed to the top of the show pile. I was looking around when Wang Sanyuan pressed my head and asked me, "What's the shouting?"

"I didn't yell, what are you doing with my head?"

"Raise your head so high, you want to eat the gun!" Wang Sanyuan is slightly older than me, and of course he knows more than me.

At this time, Puyi sent someone to retrieve us back to the Yangxin Hall and said to us: "Feng Yuxiang is unreasonable, send Lu Zhonglin to force the palace, you guys clean up and follow me!" In addition to me and Wang Sanyuan, there were also Qi Jizhong.

I remember leaving the palace near noon that day. A few of our attendants followed Puyi out of the Yangxin Hall, through the north-south passage into the Royal Garden, and then out of the Shunzhen Gate next to the catwalk heap. At this time, I saw two small Biaoke sleeping cars driving into the Shenwu Gate. Puyi and Lu Zhonglin boarded the first yellow car one after another, and Wang Sanyuan and Qi Jizhong and I followed the first car. Because the inside of the car was so crowded, I put my feet on the pedals and hung my body half-pulled outside the car. This section of the bone eye on the king Sanyuan is still joking! He reached over and pulled my ear. WanRong, Wen Xiu, and Rong Yuan got into the second blue car.

The car stopped at the gate of Beifu in about ten minutes. Lu Zhonglin opened the door first and got out of the car, and Puyi and a few of us also got out of the car. Only to hear Lu Zhonglin say to Puyi: "You can't continue to live in the palace, go back to your own home!" The two of them talked for a while as you asked me and answered. At this time, Rong Yuan stepped out of the car behind him and hurriedly ran over, only to see that he was wearing a shoulder, but only one shoulder, obliquely and crookedly on the shoulder, and shouted angrily at Zhong Lin, "Don't say anything!" You let out of the palace, we also came out, what else to say!" He seemed to be mad, and Lu Zhonglin ignored him. Interestingly, Puyi came to his father's house and entered the door to perform the formalities, which is really funny!

Puyi was arranged in several houses in the back garden of beifu. At about two o'clock in the afternoon, Puyi seemed to have a nervous disease, and he sniffed here and there with his nose and found some kind of peculiar smell. Because I was following him, he asked me, "Do you smell anything?" Like kerosene smells! It was Lu Zhonglin who was going to set fire to us!" I smelled half the size, there was no smell, and I looked around again, and found no sign of arson. However, Puyi was still undecided and still couldn't put his mind at ease.

I heard that Puyi did not dare to sleep that night, afraid that the fire would burn, it was really a ghost. Wang Sanyuan and Qi Jizhong, I lived in a house vacated by the eunuchs in Beifu, but I slept very peacefully.

On November 7, Puyi passed me on. When I got to his house, there were two children about the same age as me. Puyi called us to the front and said, "I don't need too many people here, so let's go home!" Having said that, give each of us something, and give me a gold ring with gemstones. I knew someone had played a book and said something bad about me. But I was very happy at the time: it had been half a year since I left home in the blink of an eye, and I felt depressed in my heart when I served Puyi, missed my parents, and looked forward to going home to see.

When I entered the palace for half a year, I did not expect to be promoted to a higher rank and get rich, but I also hoped to have a chance to get ahead. Unexpectedly, Puyi used a gold hammer to send me home. It was a pleasure to see my parents and relatives, but in the blink of an eye, I felt that it was not a taste.

I stayed at home for more than twenty days, and a Yang Zongguang came to me, who was Puyi's personal attendant at the time. When he met him, he said, "The emperor misses you, and tells you to go!" Where do I ask? Yang said that the emperor had moved to the Japanese legation, and we would go there now. Therefore, I did not hesitate to bid farewell to my parents and followed Yang Zongguang on the road.

We walked into Dongjiaomin Lane and knew from the plaque in front of the door that Daoxi was the British legation, and Daodong was the Japanese legation. However, the gate of Ludong was tightly closed. Yang Zongguang told me that in order to ensure the safety of the emperor, the embassy closed its gate in broad daylight, and we had to go around the door of the Japanese barracks. The two courtyards were separated by a large wall, connected by a small door in the middle, and we passed through that door to a small two-story building located in the courtyard of the Japanese legation. Here is undoubtedly Puyi's "walk", Yang Zongguang led me to the second floor to meet Puyi, I gave him a kowtow to ask for peace, Puyi said: "I miss you, just stay here with me!"

I went to the Japanese legation in early November of the year of koshi in the old calendar. I didn't see how Puyi came, but I heard Puyi say that Zheng Xiaoxu had contacted him. But at that time, the situation was very complicated: Zheng Xiaoxu invited the emperor to the Japanese legation, and Johnston invited the emperor to the British legation, and the two had their own hearts, and Puyi was in a state of uncertainty. There was also a housekeeper in the Northern Province, Zhang Wenzhi, who followed Puyi step by step, not so much that he did things for Zaifeng, but rather a person who communicated with Lu Zhonglin. According to Puyi, the scene where he infiltrated the Japanese legation was also dramatic. In order not to make the government military and police guarding the North Mansion suspicious, they deliberately contacted puyi in advance to say that Puyi was going to the German Hospital in Dongjiaomin Lane for treatment, and the military and police also followed a few. Puyi then took a trip to the hospital and returned to Beifu on the same day, with the purpose of psychologically paralyzing the military and police who guarded Beifu. The next day Puyi went to the German hospital again, there was only one military policeman and Zhang Wenzhi to follow, after the car stopped at the front door of the German hospital, the military police and Zhang Wenzhi were too lazy to get out of the car, Puyi walked into the hospital and saw Chen Baochen and Zheng Xiaoxu waiting there, they pretended not to know each other, and slipped out of the back door of the hospital. In order to prevent people from being targeted, he deliberately entered the Ulivan foreign firm, and Puyi also casually bought a pocket watch there. It was a gray-rimmed, gold-rimmed haute pocket watch with a shimmering heart. When Puyi and others were about to slip away from the back door of the foreign bank, people who did not know the truth also asked Puyi to tell Zhang Wenzhi and the military police who were still waiting in the car outside the front door of the German hospital. Do you want to drive the car over? Puyi waved his hand: "Oh! Let them stay!" This is the detail before Puyi infiltrated the Japanese legation.

Puyi stayed at the Japanese legation for three months, where Wanrong and Wenxiu also lived, and the eunuch Li Chang'an, as well as a Liu eunuch and two palace maids served them.

Puyi has some etiquette every day, but he is still bored. He rarely went to the side of the Japanese minister, Yoshizawa Kenkichi, and always stayed in his room during the day. Occasionally, Twice I walked out of the legation, because a few steps to the east was the residence of a Gege, and Puyi went to play. As far as I know, there was a stage when he went out at night, in order to prevent being recognized by passers-by, he disguised himself in advance, and only took Qi Jizhong alone, riding away from the embassy district for a walk, according to Puyi, he had said that he had gone to Dong'an Market, to the moat in front of Shenwu Gate, and also to the shore of Shichahai Lake.

One day, Puyi ordered the tea room to insert sugar gourds for him to eat. The palace does this trick every year, and the special feature of the craft is that each bamboo stick is only strung with a large hawthorn, which is different from a string of five or six on the market. The imperial chef of the tea room was ordered to do it, and he did not expect that Puyi also followed the tea room. The imperial cook later told me that the tea room temporarily installed in the legation was small, the pot was small, and the workbench could only accommodate one person. The emperor still came to join in the fun, he would not do it, two hands were full of sugar, one dragged a filament, circling around, falling on the neck of the imperial kitchen, on the arm, on the back of the hand, hot to the imperial kitchen straight trembling, but did not dare to speak, really living and suffering. This incident can reflect Puyi's bitter and bored mood at that time.

On the twenty-third day of the Lunar New Year, according to the old custom, stove sugar was bought to sacrifice to the king of the stove. Puyi ordered people to buy a lot of candy; about the east sugar, strip sugar, stove sugar, and also ordered the tea house to make a lot of sugar gourds. I remember that in the first half of the day, I and a few attendants came and went behind the front building, busy doing this, doing that, suddenly, Puyi on the second floor pushed open the window and shouted into the courtyard: "Open your pocket to catch it!" Open your pocket and catch it!" With shouts, all kinds of candy rose from the second-floor windows and scattered down. Several of us were wearing blue cloth coats, and we just used our hands to lift the corners of the front cardigan to form a natural large cloth pocket. Some people take a lot of sugar, some people can't hold a piece, I am lucky, just open the placket to hold a large gourd-shaped sugar melon, the heart is very happy.

I spent the Spring Festival with Puyi at the Japanese legation, puyi's birthday and lantern festival, and after another ten days, Puyi suddenly found me and gave me a hundred oceans. I thanked the reward, and Puyi said, "You go home first!" He didn't say why, he didn't say why, I simply didn't ask, packed up my bits and pieces and went out. At that time, I didn't know what medicine was sold in Puyi's gourd, and I didn't think that I would be taken away this time, and one day someone would send someone to pick me up.

(To be continued)